A Progressive Toolkit to Solve Canada’s Housing Crisis
Housing expert Carolyn Whitzman chronicles the shifts in government housing policy over recent decades and shows what needs to be done to make housing accessible for all Canadians.
Housing expert Carolyn Whitzman chronicles the shifts in government housing policy over recent decades and shows what needs to be done to make housing accessible for all Canadians.
Chris Hurl and Leah Werner document the complex and intensifying issue of consulting firms ripping off government programs and deskilling the public service in Canada and across the globe.
Leading economist Armine Yalnizyan discusses the COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons to be learned.
Jim Stanford talks through the shortcomings of Canadian federal policies in easing the cost of living crisis and shows how organized labour is supporting the working-class.
Highlighting the power of human and social capital, Angella MacEwen offers an alternative path to boosting Canadian productivity.
Facing the increasing risk presented by AI amid crises, Unifor’s research department has been on the frontlines developing new strategies to defend workers against precarity.
In her new book, ‘Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom,’ Grace Blakeley retraces neoliberalism’s short- and long-history, moving beyond conventional analysis to track this peculiar variant of capitalism back centuries rather than decades.
“Corporations in sectors where there’s three or four major players have been able to take advantage of the moment and set their prices higher.”
Wellness Spending Accounts (WSAs) first-and-foremost enhance the “bottom line” at the expense of the working-class.